ACL,SAL Dining Car Books

In recent listings of Ron's Books, both ACL and SAL Dining car books are mentioned in the new books portion of the ads,and at a reasonable price(depending on quality, number of pages,etc.). Has anyone obtained either/or both of these,and would the society consider carry-ing them if they were of good quality?

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Mr. Coe : If at this late date, you are still interested in obtaining
these books, I can recommend them as being authentic in every respect.
When I worked in the general office at Amtrak 1972 - 75, we had a
collection of railroad cookbooks. We had Jim Mashburn's ACL book [the
Society one lacks the blistering memoranda which JBM could fire off,
blasting people for serving string beans without ordering ham hocks
from Jacksonville, etc.] and we had the Seaboard book, which is loaded
with useful tips about preparing healthful food and was the the gift
of Jim Getty in the hopes that Amtrak might be inspired to rise to the
level of Seaboard cuisine. Someone else probably "liberated" the
Amtrak copies. But I bought mine from the Society bookstore and they
are the real McCoy and good value for money. JimW.

Paul, these are the Society's reprinted dining car recipe books that
Ron's Books is now stocking. They are done in our standard reprint
format (softcover with Ibico plastic ring binding) and are exact
reprints of the ACL and SAL originals in our archives collection.
They have been described in more detail in recent issues of
the "Lines for Members" insert in Lines South, but if you or others
have further questions, please say so. Ron's is one of our good
customers, but naturally we'd prefer you buy them direct from our
company store.